Elijah Juckett

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| name = Elijah Juckett

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| caption = Elijah Juckett Headstone

| birth_date = June 8, 1760

| death_date = August 5, 1839 at age 79

| birth_place = Freetown, MA

| death_place = Sharon, CT

| placeofburial = Boland Burying Grounds, Sharon, CT{{Cite web |url=http://www.sharonhist.org/sharon-ct-headstones-boland-burying-ground.htm |title=Boland Burying Ground Sharon CT Headstones |access-date=2012-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920144957/http://www.sharonhist.org/sharon-ct-headstones-boland-burying-ground.htm |archive-date=2011-09-20 |url-status=dead }}

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| allegiance = Continental Army

| branch = United States Army

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| rank = Sergeant

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| unit = 10th Massachusetts Regiment Infantry

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Elijah Juckett was an infantryman in the United States' Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Juckett was born in Freetown, MA on June 8, 1760, to Peter Jacquet Jacket and Thankful Benson in the "old Plymouth Colony."http://records.ancestry.com/Elijah_Juckett_records.ashx?pid=16901249 {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} He enlisted as a private in the Continental Army on June 11, 1776, only 3 days after his 16th birthday. As an infantrymen, Juckett served under Col. Benjamin Tupper in the 10th Massachusetts Regiment. His total enlistment was 1 month 18 days as a Private, 10 months as a Sergeant for a total of 24 months on active duty.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-sQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1022 |title = Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives, prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in accordance with chapter 100, resolves of 1891|year = 1901}} Eventually, Juckett moved to Sharon, CT where he died on August 5, 1839. Elijah Juckett's name is engraved on the Sharon Veterans Monument.

{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42169|title = Sharon Veterans Monument, a War Memorial}} He is buried at Boland Burying Ground in Sharon, Connecticut.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sharonhist.org/sharon-ct-headstones-boland-burying-ground.htm |title=Boland Burying Ground Sharon CT Headstones |access-date=2012-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920144957/http://www.sharonhist.org/sharon-ct-headstones-boland-burying-ground.htm |archive-date=2011-09-20 |url-status=dead }}